Enable provides a great opportunity to strengthen your charity so it can deliver more effectively. It can reinvigorate the charity by funding; organisational improvements; development of areas such as leadership and governance; improved systems; demonstrating outcomes etc. These developments will put the charity in a stronger position to be able to deliver services better and attracting funding.
Enable grants are for up to £15,000 over two years. Grants are awarded to charities that are addressing issues of multiple disadvantages at points of transition but have also identified clear development areas which will support their growth.
Enable can fund a range of activity related to the development and improvement of the capability of your organisation, for example:
• business and service developments and plans
• development of monitoring systems
• investigation of mergers, partnerships, shared services, contract diversification
• consultancy support
• quality standards
• development of new income streams and enterprise
Enable Outcomes
Applicants must have identified specific organisational development, have a clear plan of activities and an idea of what they hope to achieve. They must also meet one or more of the five outcomes:
1. Improved activities and services (Including pilots; assessment of needs; user satisfaction; service reviews; project planning; collaboration with others)
2. Improved leadership/governance (Including review of board/committee policy and practice; Trustee training; involving users; change management; social entrepreneurship)
3. Improved strategic planning/policy (Including business planning; fundraising strategies/income generation/ policy/procedure reviews)
4. Improved structures/systems (including financial controls; human resources; management of volunteers; risk management; monitoring frameworks; impact assessment)
5. Improved communications (Including marketing and communications; website development; reaching new audiences; recruiting volunteers)
For further information and to apply, visit: www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/our-programmes/enable/